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...could not have been easy being Elliott Roosevelt. If the alcohol wasn't getting him, the morphine was. If it wasn't the morphine, it was the struggle with depression. Then, of course, there were the constant comparisons with big brother Teddy...
...Elliott Roosevelt was not the only younger sibling of an eventual President to cause his family heartaches-or at least headaches. There was Donald Nixon and the loans he wangled from billionaire Howard Hughes. There was Billy Carter and his advocacy on behalf of the pariah state Libya. There was Roger Clinton and his year in jail on a cocaine conviction. And there is Neil Bush, younger sib of both a President and a Governor, implicated in the savings-and-loan scandals of the 1980s and recently gossiped about after the release of a 2002 letter in which he lamented...
...would not have thought it possible to write about the role of the President's spouse without mentioning the remarkable partnership forged between Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. But I guess that would have spoiled your simplified story line reporting an orderly progression of liberation from then to now. Dick Scott Stanford, Calif...
...would not have thought it possible to write about the role of the President's spouse without mentioning the remarkable partnership forged between Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. I guess that would have spoiled your simplified story line reporting an orderly progression of liberation from then to now. Dick Scott Stanford, California...
...surprising, giving their authoritarian nature that antismoking reformers might object to children seeing images of heavy-smoking leaders like Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt, but would have no qualms about youngsters being exposed to photos of tobacco-hating Adolf Hitler...